if we're talking about arcade games, it's a split between 720 and 4-player gauntlet.

wizard needs food!

as far as arcade goes...





I was king on the Bay Street track








as seen in Bloodsport!!








there's a whole lot more that I loved to play...and not to mention pinball as well. here's a little trivia question: how many buttons did the first Street Fighter have and how did you do the hard to fierce attacks?

OOh. Ikari Warriors. Nice!

A: There was two versions the two button one (which is the only one I've played) and the rare six button one (only played on emulator). The strength of the attack was determined by the length of time you held the attack Button down. Capcom vs SNK for the Neo-Geo Pocket Color, adopted a similar style (excluding medium strength).

Special attacks were pretty hard to do on command (no matter how much you practiced), and you usually would start a hadouken from BD (back-down) to get the best results. Hard as hell to do, but when you connected with them those people bled about two-thirds of their life.

The game was actually fairly easy once you got the hadouken down. But once you get to Thailand and fight Adon and especially Sagat, that game becomes the devil!

Ken was also only selectable by putting in a quarter for second player and beating the first player in combat.

Oh man, this brings back memories! They had the two button, pressure sensitive cabinet at my local arcade. It had these HUGE buttons covered in soft rubber, and to perform a fierce attack you had to bash those things as hard as you could. Being an 8 year old kid at the time, I'd have to recruit a few friends in an attempt to play the game, one to manage the controls and one kid for each button. While one of us desperately tried to pull off some quarter circles, the other two would be maniacally pounding on the buttons with both fists.

Needless to say, we were not the most skilled Street Fighter players in the arcade.



I do remember playing the 6 button version at a different arcade and being just as bad. I think I could get to the second character, the ninja...

Arcades were so awesome
GI Joe and X-Men were some of my favorites in the arcade, along with the original TMNT. Anything 4-6 players was the best. Pinball is my true passion now, try all you want, you will never get the feel for a pinball machine at home.

i tried playing the original tmnt at home on the xbox. it was a terrible experience, nothing like how i remember it in the arcade.

anyone play "flamin' finger" at dave & buster's? it's my current favorite arcade game. d&b's is a shallow facsimile of what real arcades used to feel like, but i visit it once in a while just to take in the sights.

however, nothing will top my memories of 4-player gauntlet with friends, pouring in quarters for hours at a time.

Nah, I would do the the same thing with MAME but with unlimited coins it's a matter of beating it before you get bored.
I haven't been to D&B in almost 8 years, I went to one in Florida, I keep meaning to go, but there is usually something else going on.

this was probably one of the best looking games of it's time. I totally sucked at it, managing to get to the 3rd stage and not any further but it looked fantastic.

this link runs the music in the background. great video game music just adds to the game's overall experience.
http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=darius&page=detail&id=585

I'm sure EVERYone has played Bust a Move at least once in their lives. Pang is another fun one I remember.


I'm not sure if anyone's played Snow Bros. It's pretty much Bubble Bobble, but I liked it more.

We've got at least two good arcades in Portland - Avalon and Ground Kontrol. I haven't been to Avalon in ages, but from what I remember you pay $5 to get in, there are a bunch of free games, a bunch more nickel games, and then some quarter and dollar games. And Ground Kontrol has beer and no entry fee, and most games are a quarter.

we went to both while we were in portland. ground kontrol was just fantastic

Don't forget about Dungeons and Dragons or Shadow Warriors (Co-op Ninja Gaiden). Two of my favorite Side Scrolling Beat-Em Ups.

In no particular order:
Portal
Demon's Souls
Gradius V
Final Fantasy VIII (yep, 8 not 7)
shadow of the colossus (PS3 remastered version coming soon)

Dont forget ico remastered

classic.

Is that Darius (did not click on link)? Did you ever play Darius Gaiden on Saturn or PSX (don't know if it came out on PSX). Darius is one of the best side scrolling shooters.

yup...Darius. The console version just didn't compare to the arcade. You gotta click on the link, even if it's just to hear the music.

fave genre is rpgs:
tough call for me between final fantasy 9 and 10. love aspects of both.
super mario rpg-still run through it once a year
shadow hearts: covenant is prob my fave overall rpg though..

arcade was made for fighters:
soul blade
mk3
capcom vs. snk 2- cammy and joe higashi together? i ran thru people in the arcades

recent gen stuff i really enjoy:
uncharted 1/2
batman:arkham asylum

That's good taste right there. I liked 10 a lot better than 9. I've beat every FF except for 11 and 13 (I refuse to play MMORPG's and 13 was just ass). My favorite is still FF6, Kefka is the best Final Fantasy Villian.

YEAH!!!

Wow this would have been 99% of my list!!

Here you go. Official PS3 Trailer. It's going to have 3D support and the UK version of ICO which has content/more story never released in America.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/09/15/ico-and-shadow-of-the-colossus-collection-hits-ps3-spring-2011-with-3d/

Anyone ever get down on Heart of Darkness for ps1? It was extremely hard, a very smart puzzle game with the same graphics techniques as FFVII I believe.

Final Fantasy VII and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, two of my favorite games ever!